Qiwen Lu
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198295372
- eISBN:
- 9780191685101
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295372.003.0006
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business, Innovation
This chapter examines the consistent pattern with regard to the trajectories of technology learning or capability acquisition among the four enterprises from the case studies and describes the ...
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This chapter examines the consistent pattern with regard to the trajectories of technology learning or capability acquisition among the four enterprises from the case studies and describes the evolution of a unique top-down mode of technology learning. The enterprises' ready access to the science and technology resources that had been accumulated in the state sector was indispensable in permitting them to start directly with product innovation. In all four cases, indigenous innovations in technology stemmed from the need to process Chinese-language information. However, it was the organizational innovation in the institutional structure of enterprise governance that enabled these enterprises to bring the technological capabilities to meet the market needs. There was a coupling between the institutional structure of enterprise governance and the trajectories of technology learning.Less
This chapter examines the consistent pattern with regard to the trajectories of technology learning or capability acquisition among the four enterprises from the case studies and describes the evolution of a unique top-down mode of technology learning. The enterprises' ready access to the science and technology resources that had been accumulated in the state sector was indispensable in permitting them to start directly with product innovation. In all four cases, indigenous innovations in technology stemmed from the need to process Chinese-language information. However, it was the organizational innovation in the institutional structure of enterprise governance that enabled these enterprises to bring the technological capabilities to meet the market needs. There was a coupling between the institutional structure of enterprise governance and the trajectories of technology learning.
